How garlic can neutralize odour

By infektia

Garlic wasn't only used to be 'placed by the ancient Greeks on piles of stones at cross-roads, as a supper for Hecate' (Wiki) and isn't only used in tasty dinners (we all know how the garlic breath smells, don't we?) or for medical purposes... I just found out that garlic can be the perfect odour neutralizer. Instead of using those air-fresheners that you have in the bathroom, that nearly kills you if you spray too much, garlic does the trick without killing you...

One day a specific area in my apartment smelled like a dead mouse (I know how it smells because we had one under our dishwasher at my parents house, and it didn't smell good), I called the janitor but he didn't smell anything and he didn't find anything either. I located the source to the floor next to my couch, and it would be impossible for a mouse or something to get under there since it's made of concrete, which made it even more odd. And since everyone else could smell it and it was so strong that you almost throwed up because of it, I had to do something about it.

My mother suddenly recalled something my grandmother once said: "<em>peel the shell from the garlic and cut it in to little pieces and put it where you think the smell is coming from</em>".
Said and done, and within a few hours the odour was gone. Thank goodness, I couldn't stand the smell... This has happened twice now and each time at different locations. It's really weird.

Has anyone of you experienced something like this?

Ps. If it still smells when the garlic has dried (it will sooner or later) all you have to do is to cut off the dry parts and you can use them again...